212 research outputs found

    Young Men and the Creation of Civic Christianity in Urban Methodist Churches, 1880-1914

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    This article examines the formation and discourse of the Epworth League, established by the Methodist Church as a lay organization intended to keep adolescent boys in the church. While the Epworth League was ostensibly open to both men and women, its real aim was to masculinize a church which was perceived to be dominated by a female membership and female-led organizations. This article explores when and how this construction of youthful piety became embedded within Methodism and the impact it had on the shape of church governance. Moreover, it argues that social Christianity, which gained a foothold through the mechanism of the League was an essentially male-gendered discourse.Cet article traite de la formation et du discours de la Ligue Epworth, une organisation laĂŻque crĂ©Ă©e par l’Église mĂ©thodiste dans le but de garder les adolescents Ă  l’église. Alors que la Ligue Epworth Ă©tait soi-disant ouverte aux hommes et aux femmes, son vĂ©ritable but Ă©tait de masculiniser une Église perçue comme dominĂ©e par des fidĂšles fĂ©minines et par des organismes dirigĂ©s par des femmes. L’article Ă©tudie Ă  quel moment et de quelle façon cette Ă©dification de la piĂ©tĂ© des jeunes s’est ancrĂ©e dans le mĂ©thodisme et l’influence qu’elle a eue sur la structure de gouvernance de l’Église. De plus, elle soutient que le christianisme social, qui s’est rĂ©pandu grĂące Ă  la Ligue, tenait un discours masculin

    "On the threshold of manhood": Working-Class Religion and Domesticity in Victorian Britain and Canada

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    Recent studies indicate that records of church membership are unreliable as a barometer to measure the religiosity of Victorian working-class people. Specifically working-class forms of religious practice, when combined with working-class views of masculinity, tended to privilege the domestic space rather than church membership as the primary site of Christian experience. The religious diary and family correspondence of Frederick and Fanny Brigden, both working-class Londoners, reveal Brigden’s own version of domesticated religiosity and his conception of respectable working-class masculinity. His life-long obsession with temperance, thrift, self-help, and religion was neither imposed by nor borrowed from the values of the dominant classes, but grew directly from his experience of the inequalities and vicissitudes of working-class life. As the Brigdens’ example shows, working-class families’ conceptions of domesticity did not merely mimic those of bourgeois ruling elites, but flowed from their own interpretations of religion and their own strategies for survival.De rĂ©centes Ă©tudes indiquent que les registres des adhĂ©rents Ă  une Ă©glise ne sont pas une mesure fiable de la religiositĂ© de la classe ouvriĂšre victorienne. Plus particuliĂšrement, les formes de la pratique religieuse ouvriĂšre avaient tendance, lorsque combinĂ©es aux visĂ©es ouvriĂšres de la masculinitĂ©, Ă  privilĂ©gier l’espace domestique plutĂŽt que l’appartenance Ă  l’église comme lieu principal de l’expĂ©rience chrĂ©tienne. Le journal personnel religieux et la correspondance familiale de Frederick et Fanny Brigden, deux Londoniens de la classe ouvriĂšre, tĂ©moignent de la version propre Ă  Brigden de la religiositĂ© domestiquĂ©e et de sa conception d’une masculinitĂ© ouvriĂšre respectable. Son obsession de toujours pour la tempĂ©rance, l’épargne, la dĂ©brouillardise et la religion n’était ni imposĂ©e par les valeurs des classes dominantes ni empruntĂ©e Ă  celles-ci. Non, elle Ă©manait directement de son expĂ©rience des inĂ©galitĂ©s et des vicissitudes de la vie de la classe ouvriĂšre. Comme le montre l’exemple de Brigden, la conception que nourrissait les familles de la classe ouvriĂšre de la domesticitĂ© ne faisait pas qu’imiter celle des Ă©lites bourgeoises dirigeantes, mais elle dĂ©coulait de leur propre interprĂ©tation de la religion et de leurs propres stratĂ©gies de survie

    "Pioneering for a Civilized World:" Griffith Taylor and the Ecology of Geography

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    Modalities of Social Authority: Suggesting an Interface for Religious and Social History

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    The dominant approaches in Canadian social history have focused, for the most part, upon categories of region, class formation, and women’s experience (more recently informed by theories of gender). Because of the priorities placed upon these “primary identities”, religious experience, both in its social and personal aspects, has tended to form a “neutral” backdrop to the more active dimensions of secular political and social thought. We thus propose two interdependent analytical frameworks through which to explore religious forms and practices as integral elements of social formation: the ongoing function of religious institutions as an apparatus of social regulation; and the concomitant search for cultural authority (and political power) by which both groups and institutions sought to articulate a particular vision of the social order.Dans l’histoire sociale canadienne, les approches dominantes ont mis principalement l’accent sur les catĂ©gories de la rĂ©gion, de la formation des classes et de l’expĂ©rience des femmes (plus rĂ©cemment Ă©clairĂ©e par les thĂ©ories des rapports hommes-femmes). En raison de la prioritĂ© accordĂ©e Ă  ces « identitĂ©s primaires », l’expĂ©rience religieuse, tant dans sa manifestation sociale que personnelle, a eu tendance Ă  former une toile de fond « neutre » aux dimensions plus actives de la pensĂ©e politique et sociale sĂ©culaire. Nous proposons donc deux cadres d’analyse interdĂ©pendants par lesquels explorer les formes et pratiques religieuses Ă  titre d’élĂ©ments intĂ©graux de la formation sociale : la fonction permanente d’appareil de rĂ©gulation sociale des institutions religieuses; et la recherche concomitante d’autoritĂ© culturelle (et de pouvoir politique) par laquelle tant les groupes que les institutions ont cherchĂ© Ă  articuler une vision particuliĂšre de l’ordre social

    Re University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association and University of Saskatchewan

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    On behalf of Professor Vandervort, The Association, pursuant to article 31.5.5 of the 1991-2 Collective Agreement, contests the President’s recommendation to the Board of Governors that she be dismissed, on the ground that reasons for dismissal do not exist

    Re University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association and University of Saskatchewan

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    This is the determination of an Arbitration Committee established to hear and determine whether or not the grounds for the President\u27s recommendation for the dismissal of Lucinda Vandervort, a tenured Associate Professor, are established and, if established, whether or not they constitute good and sufficient cause for dismissal. The Committee has already issued an interim decision that, even if established, the grounds for the President\u27s recommendation for dismissal do not constitute good and sufficient cause for dismissal and Professor Vandervort has been fully reinstated pending this determination. We advised the parties of our conclusion to that effect after the University had put in its case, in the hope that time and money would be saved. It suffices to say that it did not have that effect
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